For Kanye!
This has nothing to do with Kanye.
Looks as though MA is going to put itself on the map again as the first state to provide health care for all the citizens. The bill, which Gov. Mitt Romney said he would sign, requires all Massachusetts residents to obtain health coverage by July 1, 2007. It will make obtaining said coverage a lot easier for the economically-disabled people, as well as increase the number of children that can get free health care. And if you are a person who can afford health care coverage but don't get it, be prepared to get a bite in the butt on your income taxes. The plan hopes to drop the number of uncovered people in the state to less than 1% in just a few years. It's also a way for them to save the 385 million dollars they'd lose in government Medicare money if they didn't lessen the number of uncovered people. All of this would have been done earlier, but it was stuck in Congress, but it seems almost unanimous now that they all want it.
Similarly, as mentioned in the article, was Hawaii's standards for employee welfare. Enacted in 1974, the Prepaid Health Care (PHC) Act was a law that said "Employers must provide health care coverage to employees who work at least twenty (20) hours per week and earn 86.67 times the current Hawaii minimum wage a month ($6.75 x 86.67 = $585)." Hawaii was the first state to make such a law, however, many people still remain uncovered. While their standards for the law seem the be a lot more selective than the Massachusetts counterpart, it's very well possible that we will fall far short of our projected range of coverage throughout the state.
How will this work out? Who knows? I think I'm already covered by something....
Looks as though MA is going to put itself on the map again as the first state to provide health care for all the citizens. The bill, which Gov. Mitt Romney said he would sign, requires all Massachusetts residents to obtain health coverage by July 1, 2007. It will make obtaining said coverage a lot easier for the economically-disabled people, as well as increase the number of children that can get free health care. And if you are a person who can afford health care coverage but don't get it, be prepared to get a bite in the butt on your income taxes. The plan hopes to drop the number of uncovered people in the state to less than 1% in just a few years. It's also a way for them to save the 385 million dollars they'd lose in government Medicare money if they didn't lessen the number of uncovered people. All of this would have been done earlier, but it was stuck in Congress, but it seems almost unanimous now that they all want it.
Similarly, as mentioned in the article, was Hawaii's standards for employee welfare. Enacted in 1974, the Prepaid Health Care (PHC) Act was a law that said "Employers must provide health care coverage to employees who work at least twenty (20) hours per week and earn 86.67 times the current Hawaii minimum wage a month ($6.75 x 86.67 = $585)." Hawaii was the first state to make such a law, however, many people still remain uncovered. While their standards for the law seem the be a lot more selective than the Massachusetts counterpart, it's very well possible that we will fall far short of our projected range of coverage throughout the state.
How will this work out? Who knows? I think I'm already covered by something....
posted by Shadow | 6:36 PM
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